The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-25
MINOR MENTION.

FrankilnvilIe If he We're farmer. ard he
answered: II am farmer in everything but
the work. 1 employ man to run my farm. and
don't NEEDLE with him. The fact is, my farm is
more for recreation and amusement than for in
come" He gave the people excellent talk
about the duties of good citizenship. with some
side references to agriculture, but it was the
talk of lawyer and statesman rather than
farmer. In fact, Mr.. Evarts expressly disclaimed
the right to speak farmer. He said:
81 am not here under any false pretences
farmer. There is not farmer here who does
not know more about farninc than do; but
have always loved farm lis, I devoted my
earliest earnings as a lawyer to buying a farm.
My next step was to hire good farmer, and
then not to NEEDLE with him. because I very
early discovered that the more had to Go with
the farm the less profit there was. / thought it
good idea. since l was not q rich man, to credit
everything that came from the farm. every egg.
every chicken, and SO was able to show that
had income from the farm. and then L con-
cluded not to keep any account of the expenses,
and thus I have been able always to show
a handsome balance for the farm"
This is happily put, though Mr.. Evarts's sys
tenn of keeping farm accounts can hardly be
recommended for general adoption by practical
farmers. In assuring his hearers that he would
not make long speech Mr.. Evarts made per-
sonal alluslon that caused great laugh. He
said: 81 told my friends that would take about
that would be a guarantee of my finishing it
within the specified time. I have been under
the reproach of not knowing when to termina to
my speeches. There has been lack of terminal
facilities apparently in my speeches" There
has never been q wittier alusion to the distin-
guished Senator's long sentences and long
speeches than this: but no matter how long he
talks he always talks WELL Mr.. Evarts il one Of
our grand old men.
THE Sunday liquor question is 10 the front in
Buffalo, N. Y. as well as in some other places,
and forms an issue in their coming city election.
A personal liberty" league has been formed
of those who favor open saloons after o'clock
on Sunday afternoons. and a countermo
ment an association has been formed of those
who favor a quiet Sunday. The latter have is
sued address, in which they say:
This so-called league for the protection of
personal liberty defantly joins issue with the
supporters of law, order and good morals. Its
members propose to take hand in politics.
that rum may rule. They mean business that
the Lords day may be defled They will give
up half the Sunday TO church observances, the
six hours between breakfast and dinner, but de-
mand that during the ten hours between P. NJ.
and midnight the more than ZOO liquor-sho
and dives and dens shall have the right to sell
Intoxicating drinks and make the afternoon and
night hideous. They say this country has too
long been under puritanic influence and design
henceforth it shall be under Satanic influence"
The situation in Buffalo seems to bear close
resemblance to that in some other places.
THE pastor who establishes himself in Brook
Ign seems to be as prone to trouble the sparks
TO fly upward. The latest to get into diff
Guilty is the Rev. C. w. Miller. who has been
called upon to explain certain charges, the most
heinous of which seems to be that of ogling
women whom he 10 Gets on his promenades and
encouraging female members of his congrega-
ton to fail in love with him. These charges are
met by one of Mr.. Millers friends with the
somewhat overwhelming explanation that ''the
pastors manner is magnificent and magnetic
that he is always misunderstood until we'll
known" What plea the magnetic man will
offer for himself is not known; but If the women
will become enamored OF him il he but much
as chances at them, what can he say but that
he cannot help it2 The only remedy is to dis
guise his magnifcence behind smoked glasses,
or to move away from Brooklyn to place where
the female population is less susceptible, and q
pastor can be safe.
OLIVER WENDELL. HOLMES is three-score and
ten and past, but the years have not dulled his
appreciation of womankind nor deprived him of
the talent for uttering sweet hattery, the like
of which made the 'Autocrat" irresistible to
the school mistress and led her to walk the long
path with him. In his gossippy "reminiscences
of his summer tour to Europe last year he re-
calls many pleasant and some delightful talks
at the dinnsr-table, one in particular with the
most charming woman in England. 1 wonder"
adds the sly old Doctor, if she remembers how
very lovely aud agreeable she wasa Possibly she
may be able to identify herself" Could
plment have been administered more deity had
the gallant giver been twenty instead of seventy
fve2
MRS JULIA WARD HOWE advances an arcu-
ment against tight corsets. tight shoes and the
prevailing uncomfortable style of feminine
tune which will have more weight with those
who love dancing and mourn its growing unpop-
uarity than all the physiological reasons which
the dress reformers urge against the fash
ionable outfit of the girl of the period. She
says: 1.-THE dancing of our youth was really an
able bodied exercise. The original polka fatieued
the muscles like wood-chopping or saving. But
now these same muscles have given in to
tune Necessity is laid upon them that they
shall have no free notion. Some French writer
said that the waltz had killed the dance. Grin
olipe and tie-backs have in turn killed the
waltz
THE recent centennial of the Constitution
revived a good many interesting points in its
history. among others its treatment of the
question of religion The trainers of the Con-
stitution were careful to avoid any reference to
spiritual matters beyond the provision that
mo religious test shall ever be required as
qualification to any Office pubic trust under
the United States" That was intended to cover
the whole subject. and to furnish q. once
pledge against state religion and a guarantee
of freedom of conscience. The language seems
sufficiently explicit. but the Baptists of Vir-
GINA did not think it sufficient guarantee OF
religious liberty. Perhaps their experience as
dssenters from the established church of
England had made them somewhat sensitive on
the subject. They feared that. in spite Of the
provision above quoted, a state religion might